Brenna Davis:
PCC Community Markets is the nature nation s largest food co-op. We ve grown to $383 million in sales, and we have 15 stores across the Puget Sound area. We were founded in 1953 and we ve been working on sustainability since the 1970s - so that s over 50 years. In 2018, we rolled out arguably one of the most ambitious set of sustainability goals in grocery, that included carbon negative store operations, reducing emissions associated with refrigerant leaks by 50%, 100% renewable energy, and one really big goal was to eliminate petroleum-based plastic from our deli.
Rebecca Hamilton:
Badger is a much smaller company than my other co-panelists, but as a manufacturer and a smaller company, we have a little bit of a different story. Badger was started around 1995, and in 2011 we became a Certified B Corp and that really kicked us off on a journey of measuring our impact, understanding how to operationalize, looking at goal setting, creating an environmental monitoring sy
Substantial ESG gains made in 2020 set the bar for greater commitment going forward
Providence, R.I.-based United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) on Monday released its 2020 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report showcasing the wholesaler giant’s commitments to building a brighter future, transforming today’s foodscape by delivering greater freedom of food choice and by taking innovative action on global social and environmental issues.
In its report, which can be read at BetterForAll.UNFI.com, UNFI highlights the substantial progress made in 2020, including the creation of a CEO-led executive steering committee and completion of a full materiality assessment, and also outlines its strategic and data-driven 2030 goals that the company says will accelerate positive and critical change over the next decade.